On the plane going home from a B&B in Amsterdam, my soon-to-be discarded partner continues his unending diatribe. I lean over and move my body closer to him to hide the fact of my distaste, boredom, and dislike of him. Fake it until I escape it, I say to myself.

Rosanne Ehrlich’s work has appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul series, Persimmon Tree, Panoplazine, The Voices Project, and Quillkeeper’s Press’ Rearing in the Rearview.